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Sania beaten in comeback match
Sania Mirza loses 6-3, 6-0 to Marina Erakovic in her comeback game, here at the DFS Classic in Birmingham.
- Indo-Asian News Service
- Updated: June 15, 2008 06:12 PM IST
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Birmingham:
Erakovic pulled off the lop-sided contest 6-3, 6-0 in just an hour to enter the third round of the $200,000 Tier III event.
Sania, seeded sixth in the tournament, had got a bye in the first round and this was the first match she was playing after a three-month long injury lay-off. A wrist injury soon after the Australian Open had forced her to miss the French Open.
Erakovic went up 5-2 in the first set after Sania dropped her serve in the fourth game. The Indian fought back and had a chance to break back in the eighth game when she led 30-0 but Erakovic grabbed four points in a row to dash her hopes.
Sania fizzled out after that and dropped her serve in the first game of the second set and thereafter it was a one-way traffic with the New Zealander reeling off five games to win the set and the match.
India's Sania Mirza struggled in her comeback match and bowed out from the WTA DFS Classic with a straight set loss to Marina Erakovic of New Zealand here Wednesday.Erakovic pulled off the lop-sided contest 6-3, 6-0 in just an hour to enter the third round of the $200,000 Tier III event.
Sania, seeded sixth in the tournament, had got a bye in the first round and this was the first match she was playing after a three-month long injury lay-off. A wrist injury soon after the Australian Open had forced her to miss the French Open.
Erakovic went up 5-2 in the first set after Sania dropped her serve in the fourth game. The Indian fought back and had a chance to break back in the eighth game when she led 30-0 but Erakovic grabbed four points in a row to dash her hopes.
Sania fizzled out after that and dropped her serve in the first game of the second set and thereafter it was a one-way traffic with the New Zealander reeling off five games to win the set and the match.
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